The Bonneville Power Administration, working closely with the National Performance Review Team and
the Office of Management and Budget, achieved a major accomplishment in its success in getting a
delegation of authority memorandum from the President to the Secretary of Energy which now allows
them to sell, lease, or dispose of real property with the approval of the Secretary of Energy instead of the
President. As a result of Bonneville actively and aggressively pursuing approval of this delegation,
approximately $1 million of the taxpayers money will be saved.

The Bonneville Project Act (16 USC, 832a(e); 50 Stat 733) specifics that approval of the sale of real estate
by Bonneville must be approved by the President. The Bonneville Power Administration's expertise with
this provision is that it probably costs approximately $1 million to process such a request to this highest
executive level, and suggested that it was in the taxpayers interest for Bonneville to have the authority to
sell, lease, or dispose of real property.

Consequently, Bonneville came to NPR for assistance in getting the President to delegate such authority to
them. NPR added a few items to the proposal (e.g., a copy of the law so no one would have to look for it,
and changed the letter to give the delegation to the Secretary of Energy) and sent it over to the
Vice President's office for action. OMB's T.J. Glauthier ( the Program Associate Director over DOE)
supported the idea and was instrumental in getting it signed by the President. The delegation was
completed April 11, 1994 with a signed memo from President Clinton to the Secretary of Energy.